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Speaking to Kafui Dey, Mzbel gave her account of the incident, saying she was dragged into a crowd during a performance, screamed for help and eventually lost consciousness. But she insisted that she was never sexually assaulted.
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Ghanaian musician and entrepreneur Belinda Nana Ekua Ekua Amoah, popularly known as Mzbel, has rejected longstanding claims that she was raped during a chaotic incident at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in 2005.
Speaking to Kafui Dey, Mzbel gave her account of the incident, saying she was dragged into a crowd during a performance, screamed for help and eventually lost consciousness.
But she insisted that she was never sexually assaulted.
“People say I was raped, but I was never raped,” Mzbel said.
According to the musician, the incident occurred after she had completed her performance but was repeatedly urged by the crowd to return to the stage.
She said the audience kept chanting “last one” each time she finished performing, leading her to restart her performance several times.
Eventually, Mzbel said she decided she had done enough and informed the organisers and other performers that she was leaving the stage.
The crowd, however, continued calling for her to return.
As she attempted to leave, she said the situation quickly descended into chaos.
“Somebody grabbed my leg and started pulling me into the crowd,” she recalled.
Mzbel said a struggle then broke out, with people in the crowd, organizers and members of the camera crew attempting to pull her in different directions.
“There was a pull into the crowd, pull on the stage and I was screaming and before I realised I passed out,” she said.
Mzbel was emphatic in disputing the description of the incident as rape.
She said the circumstances surrounding the incident, including the presence of several people around her, did not support the claim that she had been raped.
“It is not possible for anybody to rape me,” she said.
Mzbel also explained that she was wearing trousers and leggings underneath her outfit at the time.
“There was no rape. Nobody touched my private part,” she added.
She maintained that what happened was a chaotic struggle during which several people pulled at her before she lost consciousness.
“I was screaming. I passed out. That was all that happened,” she said.
Mzbel further disclosed that footage from the event helped identify some of the people involved in the incident.
According to her, the matter eventually went to court.
“Some faces were identified. We went to court,” she said.
However, Mzbel admitted that she could no longer remember exactly how the case was eventually resolved.
Looking back at the incident years later, she said she does not consider it something that continues to define her.
“I was there. It happened to me. It has passed. I’m a different person now,” she said.
Mzbel also said she viewed the incident as an accident rather than believing that someone had deliberately attended the event with the intention of harming her.
“I don’t think somebody deliberately came to the event centre to cause me any pain,” she said.
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